1:1 作神和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各，请散住十二个支派之人的安。

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

 

1:2 我的弟兄们，你们落在百般的试炼中，都要以为大喜乐。

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

 

1:3 因为知道你们的信心经过试验就生忍耐。

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

 

1:4 但忍耐也当成功，使你们成全完备，毫无缺欠。

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

 

1:5 你们中间若有缺少智慧的，应当求那厚赐与众人，也不斥责人的神，主就必赐给他。

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

 

1:6 只要凭着信心求，一点不疑惑。因为那疑惑的人，就像海中的波浪，被风吹动翻腾。

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

 

1:7 这样的人，不要想从主那里得什么。

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

 

1:8 心怀二意的人，在他一切所行的路上，都没有定见。

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 

1:9 卑微的弟兄升高，就该喜乐。

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

 

1:10 富足的降卑，也该如此。因为他必要过去，如同草上的花一样。

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

 

1:11 太阳出来，热风刮起，草就枯乾，花也凋谢，美容就消没了。那富足的人，在他所行的事上，也要这样衰残。

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

 

1:12 忍受试探的人是有福的。因为他经过试验以后，必得生命的冠冕，这是主应许给那些爱他之人的。

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

 

1:13 人被试探，不可说，我是被神试探。因为神不能被恶试探，他也不试探人。

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

 

1:14 但各人被试探，乃是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的。

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

 

1:15 私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来。罪既长成，就生出死来。

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

 

1:16 我亲爱的弟兄们，不要看错了。

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

 

1:17 各样美善的恩赐，和各样全备的赏赐，都是从上头来的。从众光之父那里降下来的。在他并没有改变，也没有转动的影儿。

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

 

1:18 他按自己的旨意，用真道生了我们，叫我们在他所造的万物中，好像初熟的果子。

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

 

1:19 我亲爱的弟兄们，这是你们所知道的。但你们各人要快快的听，慢慢的说，慢慢的动怒。

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

 

1:20 因为人的怒气，并不成就神的义。

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

 

1:21 所以你们要脱去一切的污秽，和盈馀的邪恶，存温柔的心领受那所栽种的道，就是能救你们灵魂的道。

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

 

1:22 只是你们要行道，不要单单听道，自己欺哄自己。

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

 

1:23 因为听道而不行道的，就像人对着镜子看自己本来的面目。

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

 

1:24 看见，走后，随即忘了他的相貌如何。

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

 

1:25 惟有那详细察看那全备使人*之律法的，并且时常如此，这人既不是听了就忘，乃是实在行出来，就在他所行的事上必然得福。

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

 

1:26 若有人自以为虔诚，却不勒住他的舌头，反欺哄自己的心，这人的虔诚是虚的。

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

 

1:27 在神我们的父面前，那清洁没有玷污的虔诚，就是看雇在患难中的孤儿寡妇，并且保守自己不沾染世俗。

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.